ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,073, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Prediction variance estimation" was invented by Manh Huynh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.), Qizhan Tam (San Jose, Calif.) and Huiching Chen (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Observed driveline mean and variance data are used for determining the variance of a trajectory of tracked objects for use by a host vehicle. A map of a portion of a vehicle transportation network are determined, wherein the map is comprised of observed driveline mean and variance data for one or more map points. At least one traje...